US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on April 8 for "Carwash device, car-washing method, storage medium stored with car-washing program, and car-washing system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,442, issued on April 8, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Carwash device, car-washing method, storage medium stored with car-washing program, and car-washing system" was invented by Teruaki Haibara (Kanagawa-ken, Japan), Kenji Hoshi (Gotemba, Japan) and Masaaki Sato (Susono, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A carwash device receives vehicle attribute information indicating an attribute of a vehicle that is a car-washing target. The carwash device selects a car-washing mode based on the vehicle attribute information, and the carwash device drives a drive section for washing the vehicle such that the vehicle ...